On 1/1/2010 7:07 AM, Bill Cox wrote: > Any basically usable Linux system for the blind needs Orca and speakup > working together. Pulseaudio, SFAIK, only allows one instance to use > the sound card at a time. Pulseaudio also requires each user to have > his own copy. Speakup runs before any user logs in, and therefore > must run as it's own user. > > Therefore... pulseaudio can't work on any truely accessible Linux box? > Is this basically true? If this can be fixed, which peice of code > needs fixing (I'm willing to fix it)? Should we try and make multiple > instances of pulseaudio play nice together so they can share the sound > card?
I will admit I haven't played with this lately that was a problem as of a few months ago. Specifically using multiple sound devices with speech recognition (or any other app requiring audio input such as a telephone. For some reason, Lennox audio systems don't seem to cope very well with a USB microphone because instead of letting it stand as a second device, it seems to displace the primary audio device in favor of a USB device and not leave the application which one it wants to use. My favorite use case is using a headset to speak with someone (voip) while running rhythm box playing some tunes in the background. For voip, you can also substitute wine running NaturallySpeaking. in any case, I think is a generic problem dealing with multiple devices and if you can fix it, that would be fantastic. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
